[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 99 (Friday, July 16, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1404-E1405]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CENTENNIAL OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECRETARIES OF STATE (NASS)

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                             HON. ROY BLUNT

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 15, 2004

  Mr. BLUNT. Mr. Speaker, as a former Secretary of State of Missouri, I 
am pleased to be able to speak today on behalf of the National 
Association of Secretaries of State.
  The National Association of Secretaries of State is the oldest 
association of public officials in the United States, created and 
established in September 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis, 
Missouri. This year marks the

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Centennial year of NASS and the Association is meeting in celebration 
of this very special milestone.
  In 1904, NASS was organized and approved for assembly at the World's 
Fair in the administration building of the Fair--Brookings Hall--which 
still stands today and is in constant use by Washington University. The 
year 2004 also marks the 150th anniversary of Washington University. I 
am pleased to honor this fine institution and recognize its importance 
in the history of NASS.
  Having left the organization as its president-elect, I continue to 
remember NASS as the most helpful and personally fulfilling 
professional organization I have been a member of.
  On behalf of myself and my colleagues in the United States Congress 
who also served as Secretaries of State--Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Tom 
Cole of Oklahoma, Katherine Harris of Florida, Jim Langevin of Rhode 
Island and Candice Miller of Michigan--I gratefully acknowledge the 
value of NASS to us personally and to the nation.

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